If you’ve got the travel bug, you might want to temporarily satisfy that itch with a trip to Mr Fogg’s Society of Exploration.
The cosy and eccentric bar, located underground just off the Strand, is themed around Phileas Fogg and his journey in the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around The World In 80 Days.
Mr Fogg’s Society of Exploration imagines what his secret liar would have looked like, complete with regal leather armchairs, a wood-panelled map room and main bar area stocked with knickknacks, from antique ornaments to travel books and encyclopaedias.
Adding to the zaniness, is a replica Orien...

Sailing away from the standard City bar format is Mrs Fogg’s in Broadgate Circle.
The Mr Fogg’s chain of bars is one of my favourite in town, given its exploration theme, and the latest site, Mrs Fogg’s, sticks to the standards.
The place was inspired by Aouda, the explorer Phileas Fogg’s Indian wife, in Jules Verne’s classic adventure novel, Around The World in 80 Days.
Everything has been designed with her nautical travels in mind, with bar-goers invited to board the Rangoon steamer. The full name of the bar is Mrs Fogg's Maritime Club and Distillery.
I ventured to the bar on a Tuesday n...

The streets of London may not be paved with gold, but this autumn a real gem of a tavern will arrive in Covent Garden. Based on the adventures of Jules Verne’s fictional explorer, Phileas Fogg, Mr Fogg’s Tavern will have an ‘upstairs downstairs’ theatrical theme with a Victorian tavern on the ground floor and a refined gin parlour and salon upstairs.

Mr Fogg’s - the Mayfair bar / reproduction house of the fictional, eccentric explorer Phileas Fogg – will temporarily be the home of a Spanish fiesta, adding to all the other curios that the Jules Verne’s famous character has brought back from his adventures around the world.

Mayfair is wondrous trail of cobbled luxury, suits, fashion, fur, taxis and racing cars; Do we need more deliciously luxurious restaurants, bars and clubs?... Yes, I’m excited to share this gem of a venue, Mr Fogg’s, a breath of fresh air in Mayfair, a new level of quirkyness and avant guard sass, a new hangout for the daring, the kind you will see charactered people who are into their liquor as much as their patterned attire!
Mr Fogg’s invites you to join him in his house to experience his journey though the wondrous world of compounded libations. Once you have finished staring at his anima...